# CVE-2026-90355: wifi: mt76: mt7996: clear stale link state on full reset

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.18.57, 7.2.6
- Published: 2026-09-17 · Updated: 2026-10-19

## Affected

- Linux: from ace5d3b6b49e8391beb4d7244348ba7da5298878, fixed in e512823aabbdc91444b9d886638f059ef58e86b1; from ace5d3b6b49e8391beb4d7244348ba7da5298878, fixed in fc3762724a36867c1749233c43368c2637ecf029; from ace5d3b6b49e8391beb4d7244348ba7da5298878, fixed in 75d2a4e2129b58bb0ddb842387299038495aad2a
- Linux: 6.18
- Kernel (Linux): from 6.18.0, fixed in 6.18.57; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: clear stale link state on full reset After a full chip reset, mac80211 reconfig replays interface, link and channel context setup. mt7996_vif_link_add() short-circuits when the link_id is still marked in mvif->valid_links, a state introduced for postponing link teardown to interface removal. The reset path frees the link structures without clearing those bits, so the replayed setup never re-creates dev_info/bss_info/STA records in the restarted firmware and never re-registers the link wcid, leaving the device inoperative. The reset path also leaks every allocated MLD index: per-link indices and the per-vif group/remap indices are re-allocated from scratch during reconfig, but the old bits stay set in the masks, so repeated full resets exhaust the index space. Clear valid_links in the reset vif iterator and reset the MLD index masks alongside the existing omac_mask clearing.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (6.18.57, 7.2.6) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e512823aabbdc91444b9d886638f059ef58e86b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc3762724a36867c1749233c43368c2637ecf029
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75d2a4e2129b58bb0ddb842387299038495aad2a

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